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The 51st Annual
Northern Great Plains
History Conference
*Primary Room and Annex Old Main on St. Cloud Normal School Campus, 1907 (Image courtesy of the St. Cloud State
University Archives)
September 14-17, 2016
Best Western Kelly Inn
St. Cloud, Minnesota
Hosted by
St. Cloud State University
History Department
Northern Great Plains History Conference Council
Chair:
Betsy Glade, St. Cloud State University
Members:
Harl A. Dalstrom, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Pamela K. Bereth Smokey, State Historical Society of North Dakota
Selika Ducksworth-Lawton, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Carole Butcher, Society for Military History
Mark Harvey, North Dakota State University
Steven Bucklin, University of South Dakota
Steven R. Hoffbeck, Minnesota State University, Moorhead
Laura Weber, Minnesota Historical Society
Nancy Tystad Koupal, South Dakota State Historical Society
Lori Ann Lahlum, Minnesota State University, Mankato, Women’s History Interest Group
Lawrence H. Larsen, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Perry Hornbacher, Bismarck State College
Dana Miller, Hibbing, Minnesota
James Naylor, Brandon University
William Lass, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Kimberly Porter, University of North Dakota
Elaine Nelson, Early Career Scholar, University of Nebraska—Omaha
The Council will meet on Friday September 16, at 7:00 a.m., in the Boardroom of Best Western Kelly Inn. Member institutional
or organizational representatives wishing to discuss any matter with the Council, including hosting future conferences, should
contact one of the members listed above for placement on the agenda.
Schedule of Sessions
Wednesday, September 14
7:00 p.m.
1. Film: Lakota Emergence, with comments by producer, Craig Howe, Director of the Center for American
Indian Research and Native Studies
8:00 p.m.
Reception for all Conference Attendees hosted by the Society for Military History in the ballroom at the Kelly Inn
Thursday, September 15
8:30-10:00 a.m.
2. Sponsored by SMH: Irregular Warfare is Here to Stay
3. Minnesota Dakota History
4. Teaching State History: A Discussion of Objectives and Pedagogies—Roundtable
5. Sponsored by WHIG: Celebrating Woman Suffrage in Minnesota--Roundtable
6. WWI: Minnesota & Wisconsin
10:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
7. Sponsored by WHIG: New Perspectives on Woman Suffrage
8. Sponsored by SMH: Between the Wars
9. A Critical Moment for Indian Education: Partnerships to Address Inequities
10. Agricultural History
11. Fish, Wine, and Digitization of Ancient Rome
12. Selling the Midwest: Products, Games, and Promotion
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Women’s History Interest Group Luncheon
2:00-4:00 p.m.
Historic Walking Tour of St. Cloud State University with local Historian Bill Morgan, Emeritus, and
Tom Steman, Archivist, St. Cloud State University
2:00-4:00 p.m.
13. Sponsored by SMH: Non-Military Personnel in Military History
14. Rethinking Conversion and Missionaries on the Northern Great Plains
15. Business & Economics
16. Ancient Greece
18. Labor in History
5:00 p.m.
Transportation to Stearns History Museum
5:30 p.m.
Reception at the Stearns History Museum
Friday, September 16
8:45-10:15 a.m.
18. Sponsored by SMH: Military History as Popular History: Engaging the Public
19. Scary Stalin
20. Cancelled
21. Writing about War and Engaging Civil Disobedience
22. African Americans in the Midwest
23. Middle Ages & Renaissance
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
24. Political Cultures Behind and After the Iron Curtain
25. Sponsored by WHIG: Late Twentieth-Century Women’s History
26. Natural Resources, National Parks, American Indian Communities
27. Local Politics, National Implications
28. WWII & Its Aftermath
12:30-2:00 p.m.
Society for Military History Luncheon
2:30-4:30 p.m.
29. Sponsored by SMH: From Ground Level
30. Film & History
31. Northern Plains/Midwestern Politics of the Postwar Era
32. Regional, National, and International Aspects of the American Civil War
33. Peace, War, and Priesthood in Ancient Rome
5:30 p.m.
Conference Reception (Cash Bar)
6:30 p.m.
Banquet and Awards
Michael A. Ryan, Keynote Speaker
Saturday, September 17
9:00-11:00 a.m.
34. Finding John Paulson
35. Sponsored by SMH: World War II
36. Post War Germany & State Building
37. Doing History
12:00 p.m.
Society for Military History Field Trip to Camp Ripley
The Northern Great Plains History Conference gratefully acknowledges the efforts and support of the following institutions:
Bismarck State College
Brandon University
Minnesota Historical Society
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Minnesota State University, Moorhead
North Dakota Humanities Council
North Dakota State University
Society for Military History
South Dakota State Historical Society
State Historical Society of North Dakota
St. Cloud State University
University of Missouri, Kansas City
University of Nebraska at Omaha
University of North Dakota
University of South Dakota
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Wisconsin Consortium of Colleges and Universities
Women’s History Interest Group
Publications Exhibit
The publications exhibit will be held in University A throughout the conference. Various publishers from the region will be
available with materials on display.
The Society for Military History Luncheon will be on Friday, September 16, at 12:30 p.m. in room University B. Tickets are
$20.00 and may be purchased using the registration form in the back of the program. Reservations for Luncheon must be made
by September 7th.
Walking Tour of Historic St. Cloud State University
Join esteemed community journalist and architecture historian, Bill Morgan, and St. Cloud State University Archivist, Tom
Steman on a walking tour of Historic St. Cloud State University. Conference participants who would like attend this tour will
gather at Kelly Inn Lobby at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday September 15. The tour will take between 90 minutes and two hours.
Conference Reception and Banquet
The conference reception and banquet will be held on Friday, September 16, at 5:30 p.m. at the pool side reception area. A cash
bar will be available. The banquet will take place in the Grand Ballroom at 6:30 p.m. Near the end of the meal, the Remele
Award will be made as will the Graduate and Undergraduate Student Paper prizes. This will be followed by the keynote speaker,
Dr. Michael A. Ryan.
Banquet tickets are $35.00 and should be purchased using the registration form online. Please specify your preference for
Chicken Parmesan, Yankee Pot Roast, or Butternut Squash Ravioli w/Asparagus. Reservations for the banquet must be made by
September 7th.
Larry Rowen Remele Award
Established by the Northern Great Plains History Conference to honor the memory of Larry Rowen Remele, this award is
presented annually to an individual who has made significant contributions to the betterment of the conference. Remele, a long-
time editor of North Dakota History, worked energetically to promote and enhance the conference and was serving as council
chair at the time of his premature death in 1988.
The recipient of the Larry Rowen Remele Award for 2016 is Mark Harvey of North Dakota State University.
The twenty-seven previous winners of the Larry Rowen Remele Award are, in order of presentation, D. Jerome Tweton, Archer
Jones, Lawrence H. Larsen, James M. Skinner, William E. Lass, William C. Pratt, R. Alton Lee, David B. Danbom, Hans
Burmeister, Dana Miller, Malcolm Muir, Jr., Nancy Tyson Koupal, Harl A. Dalstrom, J. Michael McCormack, Charles M. Barber,
Janet Daley, Edward Pluth, Gerald Anderson, Robert C. Hilderbrand, and Frank E. Vyzralek, Joseph C. Fitzharris, James Naylor,
Kathleen K. Davison, Lori Ann Lahlum, Anne Kaplan, Kimberly K. Porter, and Gordon L. Iseminger.
Wednesday, September 14
7:00 p.m.
1. Film: Lakota Emergence
Ballroom A
Sponsored by: Craig Howe, founder and Director of the Center for American Indian Research and Native Studies (CAIRNS)
Chair: Iyekiyapiwin Darlene St. Clair, St. Cloud State University
Commenter: Craig Howe, Center for American Indian Research and Native Studies
8:00 p.m.
Ballroom B
Reception for conferees hosted by the Society for Military History
Thursday, September 15
8:30-10:00 a.m.
2. Irregular Warfare is here to Stay University B
Sponsored by SMH
Chair: David Mulligan, Bristol Community College
“The Bells of Balangiga: A Tale of Missed Opportunity,” Carole Butcher, North Dakota State University
“Moving Targets: Contemporary Experience, Practical Considerations, and the Expedition to Concord, 1775,” Chris Madden,
Independent Scholar
“What’s in a Name: A Strategic Analysis of the Islamic State,” Dean Shumate, Independent Scholar
Commenter: Kay Reist, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
3. Minnesota Dakota History
Senate Room
Chair: William Lass, Emeritus, Minnesota State University, Mankato
“James “Akicitana” King: Indian Scout, County Sheriff, and Presbyterian Minister,” Dave Grettler, Northern State University
“Isaac Heard’s Recurring Vision of Sudden Death: The U.S.-Dakota War as Anti-Indian Sublime, 1862-Present,” Rick J. Lybeck,
St. Cloud State University
Commenter: William Lass, Emeritus, Minnesota State University, Mankato
4. Roundtable—Teaching State History: A Discussion of Objectives and Pedagogies
Congress Room
Kimberly K. Porter, Department of History, University of North Dakota
Brad Jarvis, Saginaw Valley State University
David J. LaVigne, College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University
Discussion: Audience
5. Roundtable–C Celebrating Woman Suffrage in Minnesota
Sunwood Center
Sponsored by WHIG
Chair: Lori Ann Lahlum, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Panelists: David J. Nichols, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Anna M. Peterson, Luther College
Mary Lethert Wingerd, St. Cloud State University
Kristin Mapel Bloomberg, Hamline University
Discussion: Audience
6. WWI: Minnesota & Wisconsin
State Room
Chair: Selika Ducksworth-Lawton, University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire
"’They Did Their Bit.’ Todd County Women and World War I,” Edward J. Pluth, Emeritus, St. Cloud State University
“The Women of Southwest Minnesota and the Great War,” Anita Talsma Gaul, Southwest State University
“A Tale with a Twist: Censorship in WWI Wisconsin,” Timothy C. Shiell, University of Wisconsin—Stout
Commenter: Selika Ducksworth-Lawton, University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire
Thursday, September 15
10:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
7. New Perspectives on Woman Suffrage
University B
Sponsored by WHIG
Chair: Renée M. Laegreid, University of Wyoming
“From Minnesota’s First University to Colorado’s Second Star on the Suffrage Flag,” Kristin Mapel Bloomberg, Hamline
University
“Chinese Women's Participation in the United States' Women Suffrage Movement,” Anne Van, Minnesota State University,
Mankato
“Opposition in the North Start State: The Anti-Suffrage Movement in Minnesota, 1910-1920,” David J.
Nichols, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Comment: Audience
8. Between the Wars
Senate Room
Sponsored by SMH
Chair: Chris Madden, Independent Scholar
“The 1928 Mixed Commission and the Beginning of Belgian Rearmament,” Jonathan Epstein, City
University of New York
“Giulio Douhet and the French Air Force,” James Floyd Slaughter, III, University of Wolverhampton
“Mobilizing and Training the National Guard,” George Eaton, United State Army Sustainment Command
Commenter: Hal Friedman, Henry Ford College
9. A Critical Moment for Indian Education: Partnerships to Address Inequities
Congress Room
Chair: Matthew Northrup, St. Cloud State University and Fond du Lac Tribal & Community College
“Mni Sota Makoce Curriculum: Dakota Teachings and Homeland in K-12 Curricula,” Iyekiyapiwiƞ Darlene
St. Clair, St. Cloud State University
“Teaching About American Indian History and Incorporating Tribal People into U.S. History Curriculum,”
Robert W. Galler, Jr., St. Cloud State University
“The Native Studies Summer Workshop for Educators (NSSWE): Building Partnerships among Tribes, Educators, and St. Cloud
State University,” Iyekiyapiwin Darlene St. Clair and Jim Knutson-Kolodzne, St. Cloud State University
Comment: Audience
10. Agricultural History
Sunwood Center
Chair: Harl Dalstrom, Emeritus, University of Nebraska—Omaha
“Mule Corn and Spotted Hogs: Henry Field and the Effort to Improve Midwestern Agriculture,” Kimberly K. Porter, University
of North Dakota
“That Dame’s Got Grit: Selling the Women’s Land Army,” Pamela Pierce, Dickenson State University
Commenter: Harl Dalstrom, Emeritus, University of Nebraska—Omaha
11. Fish, Wine, and Digitization of Ancient Rome
State Room
Chair: Betsy Glade, St. Cloud State University
“In Vino Veritas: The History of Viticulture in ancient Roman Dalmatia,” Andrew Ring, University of
St. Thomas
“The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Garum,” Fred Carpenter, Independent Scholar
“Antiochia ad Cragum Digital Humanities Project,” Jackson David Hubler-Dayton, St. Olaf College
Commenter: Michael Martin, Fort Lewis College
12. Selling the Midwest: Products, Games, and Promotion
Board Room
Chair: Sue Patrick, University of Wisconsin—Barron County
“Cast Iron, Flax Straw, and Celluloid: Business Ventures of an Immigrant Entrepreneur,” Laurann Gilbertson, Vesterheim
Norwegian-American Museum
“Down on the Farm: Minor League Baseball in Superior, Wisconsin, 1933-1955,” Daryl Webb, Cardinal Stritch University
“Minneapolis at Mid-century: Nostalgia and Optimism within the 1956 Centennial,” Dustin Malone Gann, Arizona State
University
Commenter: Sue Patrick, University of Wisconsin—Barron County
Thursday, September 15
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Women’s History Interest Group Luncheon
University B
2:00-4:00 p.m.
Historic Walking Tour of St. Cloud State University
Guides: University Archivist Tom Steman, William Morgan, Emeritus, St. Cloud State University
Meet in Lobby of Kelly Inn to begin tour
Thursday, September 15
2:00-4:00 p.m.
13. Non-Military Personnel in Military History
Senate Room
Sponsored by SMH
Chair: George Eaton, United States Army Sustainment Command
“First Morning of Their Freedom: Fugitive Slaves and the Union Army in Missouri,” Mari A. Hunt, Coe College
“Conscription is a Tax: The Gates Commission, the Vietnam War, and the Advent of the All-Volunteer Force,” William Taylor,
Angelo State University
“Our Motto Was Service: The YMCA and YWCA in the Great War,” Johannes Allert, Norwich University
Commenter: Debra Mulligan, Roger Williams University
14. Rethinking Conversion and Missionaries on the Northern Great Plains
University B
Chair: Kevin Sharpe, St. Cloud State University
“Sitting Bull’s Monk: Monastic Conversion on the Dakotan Frontier, 1876–1896,” Paul G. Monson, Sacred Heart Seminary
“Conversion Reconsidered: Changes of Heart at Crow Creek, 1887-1935,” Steven A. Stofferahn, Indiana State University
“Converting the Missionaries and Employing Christian Evangelicals for Tribal Agendas: Crow Creek in the Late-19th and Early
20th Centuries,” Robert W. Galler, Jr., St. Cloud State University
Commenter: Jason Eden, St. Cloud State University
15. Business & Economics
Sunwood Center
Chair: Nathan Eric Hampton, St. Cloud State University
“Reevaluating Cross-Cultural Interactions in Early Colonial Virginia: The Value and Challenges of Doing Economic History in
the Absence of Hard Data,” Steve Schroeder, St. Cloud State University
“An Imperial Crisis: The Repeal of Preferential Trade and the Reciprocity Treaty of 1854,” Jonathan J. Hedeen, University of
North Dakota MA
“Burglaries, Bank Robberies, and Booze: The Social Impact of Crime Caused by Drought and Economic Depression in Nebraska
Sand Hills Communities during the 1930s,” Drew Folk, Oklahoma State University PhD
“Marlin, Margaritas and a Challenging Par Three: Inventing Authenticity in Mexican Resort Tourism, Baja California Sur, 1950-
1995,” Anthony Dutton, Valley City State University
Comment: Audience
16. Ancient Greece
State Room
Chair: Michael Martin, Fort Lewis College
“Homer to Vergil to Shakespeare, Ancient Western Influence in the Works of William Shakespeare,” Peter Ludwig, University of
St. Thomas
“Philip’s Army: How Macedonian reforms led to Alexander’s success in Asia,” Josh Utterback, South Dakota State University—
Brookings
“Macedonian Cavalry Decline in the 2nd Macedonian War,” Graham Charles Liquorish Wrightson, South Dakota State
University—Brookings
“Why did Thucydides explain his use of Speeches?” Clayton Lehmann, University of South Dakota
Commenter: Audience
17. Labor in History
Congress Room
Chair: Mary Lethert Wingerd, St. Cloud State University
“The Low End of High Street: Maritime life on Philadelphia’s Eighteenth Century Waterfront,” Jacob Douglas Bourboun,
University of North Dakota
“Gender, Labor, and Leisure in Early Twentieth-Century France,” Adam Stanley, University of Wisconsin—Platteville
Commenter: Mary Lethert Wingerd, St. Cloud State University
Thursday, September 15
5:00 p.m.
Transportation to Stearns History Museum
5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Reception at the Stearns History Museum
Friday, September 16
8:45-10:15 a.m.
18. Military History as Popular History: Engaging the Public
University B
Sponsored by SMH
Chair: Luke Koran, North Dakota State University
“The Siege of Fort Abercrombie,” Paul Nelson, Independent Historian
“Sergeant Probsfield at Fort Abercrombie,” Alan Fricker, Independent Historian
“Modesty is a Characteristic of Brave Men: The Massachusetts 7th Regiment at Marye’s Heights,” Dave Mulligan, Bristol
Community College
Commenter: Carole Butcher, North Dakota State University
19. Scary Stalin
Board Room
Chair: John Ashbrook, Sweet Briar College
“Paranoia, Illness, and Empires: A Comparison of Alexander the Great and Joseph Stalin leading up to their Deaths,” Jennifer
Sutton, South Dakota State University—Brookings
“The Influence of Revolutionary Terrorism on Stalin’s State Terror, 1905-1939,” Matthew Walz, St. Cloud State University
Commenter: John Ashbrook, Sweet Briar College
20. Cancelled
21. Writing about War and Engaging Civil Disobedience
Sunwood Center
Chair: John P. Ness, St. Cloud State University
“Editing On War: Marie von Clausewitz’s Crucial but Overlooked Role in Shaping Carl von Clausewitz’s Legacy,” Vanya
Eftimova Bellinger, Independent Scholar
“Peasant Uprising in a Zhejiang County in 1930,” Hekang Yang, College of Saint Benedict/Saint John’s University
Commenter: John P. Ness, St. Cloud State University
22. African Americans in the Midwest
State Room
Chair: Mark Jaede, St. Cloud State University
“’Because They Were the Only Negro Children’: Racial Isolation & Progress in Dallas County, Iowa, 1860-1910,” David
Brodnax, Sr., Trinity Christian College
“Black Students in ‘Lily-White’ Schools: The Recruitment of African American Students at Fargo-Moorhead Higher Educational
Institutions, 1950-1980,” Daniel D. Cooley, University of North Dakota
Commenter: Christopher Lehman, St. Cloud State University
23. Middle Ages & Renaissance
University B
Chair: Glenn M. Davis, St. Cloud State University
“’To Sail Beyond the Sunset”: An Early Medieval Irish Psalm Commentary on the History of the Past, Present, and Future,”
Michael Martin, Fort Lewis College
“Renaissance Algebra as Artisanal Activity,” William Branson, St. Cloud State University
Commenter: Michael A. Ryan, University of New Mexico
Friday, September 16
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
24. Political Cultures Behind and After the Iron Curtain
Senate Room
Chair: Kimberly A. Redding, Carroll University
“’Cultural Barbarism’ in the German Democratic Republic,” John Serrano, Carroll University
“Pictures Worth a Thousand Words: Imagery and Design Practices in the GDR’s 30th Anniversary Propaganda,” Mackenzie
Schmitt, Carroll University
“Polish Self Perceptions in Light of Polish-Russian Relations,” Joel Balicki, Carroll University
Commenter: Stephen A. Bourque, Emeritus, US Army Command & General Staff College
25. Late Twentieth-Century Women’s History
Board Room
Sponsored by WHIG
Chair: Eddah M. Mutua, St. Cloud State University
“Family Planning Politics in Post-Colonial Kenya, 1960-1980,” Agnes Odinga-Oluoch, Minnesota State University, Mankato
“Second Wave Feminism and High School Textbooks,” Kellian Clink, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Commenter: Betsy Glade, St. Cloud State University
26. Natural Resources, National Parks, American Indian Communities
Congress Room
Chair: Jim Cummings, Consulting Archaeologist, Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Tribal Historic Preservation Office and
Archaeologist & Principal Investigator, McFarlane Consulting
“Ojibwe Presence and Persistence in the Voyageur National Park Region of Minnesota, 1860s1930s,” Elizabeth Steinson, St.
Cloud State University
“’At Winters’ Edge:’ The Social and Cultural Forces Behind the Operation of the Winters Doctrine on the Wind River
Reservation, 1908-1926,” Carlton Josiah Migliaccio, University of Wyoming
“The “New Woman” in Yellowstone,” Samantha L. Larson, University of Wyoming
Commenter: Richard Rothaus, Interim Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs, North Dakota University System
27. Local Politics, National Implications
Sunwood Center
Chair: J. Thomas Hogle, Morrisville State College
“‘The Benevolence of the Age’: Debates over Social Reform and the Common Good in New York State,” Jeffrey A. Mullins, St.
Cloud State University
“Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin and the Redefinition of Midwestern Liberalism,” Jonathan Kasparek, University of
Wisconsin—Waukesha
“’Red State’ Socialism: South Dakota and the Core Rail, 1980-present,” Steven J. Bucklin, University of South Dakota
Commenter: J. Thomas Hogle, Morrisville State College
28. WWII & Its Aftermath
State Room
Chair: Lt. Colonel Thomas Sachariason, ROTC, St. Cloud State University
“The People Next Door: Holocaust and Collaboration in Lithuanian, 1941-1944,” Dylan Berg, St. Cloud State University
“Occupation, Collaboration, and Resistance in Vichy France: an Examination of Trauma and the Evolution of Post-War Memory
in France,” Paul Ergen, St. Cloud State University
“Why Can't We Close the Back Door? A Historiography of Pearl Harbor,” John Franklin, Graceland University
Commenter: John Cox, North Dakota State University
Friday, September 16
12:30-2:00 p.m.
Society for Military History Luncheon
University B
Friday, September 16
2:30-4:30 p.m.
29. From Ground Level
University A
Sponsored by SMH
Chair: William Taylor, Angelo State University
“God on a Steam Frigate: A Civil War Sailor Views Religion aboard the USS Minnesota,” Terrence Lindell, Wartburg College
“Animus Valey? Confessions of a Viking Division Redleg,” Alan R. Koenig, Independent Scholar
“Alone in Baghdad: The US Consulate in Baghdad during World War One,” Jameel Haque, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Commenter: Selika Ducksworth-Lawton, University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire
30. Film & History
University B
Chair: Ashley Baggett, North Dakota State University
“’Nature Makes Mistakes’”: Glen or Glenda? Transgender Acceptance and the Lavender Scare,” Carrie Bentley, North Dakota
State University
“A Study of Western Film Musicals from the Decade of 1945-1955,” Sarah Hammond, South Dakota State University
“Muybridge in Minnesota,” Brad Chisholm, St. Cloud State University
“Dons, Degenerates, and Diplomats: Mexican Identity in Zorro Films,” Derek Ystebo, North Dakota State University
Comment: Audience
31. Northern Plains/Midwestern Politics of the Postwar Era
Congress Room
Chair: Jon Lauck, University of South Dakota
“Lessons in 'Farmer-Labor': The Rural-Urban DFL in Rudy Perpich's Minnesota,” Cory Haala, Marquette University
“George McGovern and His Books: What They Tell Us about His Politics,” John E. Miller, South Dakota State University
“Hubert Humphrey and the Politics of Christianity and Crisis,” Paul Stone, University of Minnesota
“Pornography, Politics, and 'Doing it in the Streets': Contested Space in Post-war Minneapolis,” Kevin Ehrman-Solberg, Augsburg
College
Commenter: Michael Lansing, Augsburg College
32. Regional, National, and International Aspects of the American Civil War
Sunwood Center
Chair: Oscar Chamberlain, University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire
“A Vicious Press: Partisan Politics in the Frontier Newspapers of Mankato, Minnesota, 1857-1865,” Charles Lewis, Minnesota
State University, Mankato
“Black Civil War Veterans and the Grand Army of the Republic in Cedar Rapids, Iowa,” Brie Swenson Arnold, Coe College
“Led by Example: The Impact of Antebellum Congressional Violence on Union Views on Slavery” Sean Donaldson, Coe
College
“Between Rebellion and Occupation: How the Concurrent Upheavals of the American Civil War and the French Intervention in
Mexico Shaped Life in the Texas Borderlands,” Henry Busby, University of Wyoming
Commenter: J. Chris Arndt, James Madison University
33. Peace, War, and Priesthood in Ancient Rome
Senate Room
Chair: Judy Dorn, St. Cloud State University
“Was the Invention of the Corvus the Downfall of Carthage? An Analysis of the Naval Battles of the First Punic War,” Laura
Valiani, Georgia State University
“The Art of War in the Second Pentad of Titus Livius,” Seth Lyons Kendall, Georgia Gwinnett College
“Marc Antony's Second and Illegal Priesthood,” Troy Timmerman, University of St. Thomas
“Let’s Just Pretend its Peace: The Inauguration of the Ara Pacis in 9 BC,” Gaius Stern, University of California—Berkeley
Commenter: Maureen M. O’Brien, St. Cloud State University
Friday, September 16
5:30 p.m.
Conference Reception (Cash Bar) Pool Side
6:30 p.m.
Banquet-Grand Ballroom
Award Presentations
Michael A. Ryan, University of New Mexico, Keynote Speaker
Invitation to 52nd Annual NGPHC—Kim Porter
Saturday, September 17
9:00-11:00 a.m.
34. Finding John Paulson
Board Room
Chair: Joseph Fitzharris, Emeritus, University of St. Thomas
“John Paulson: Norwegian Immigrant, Civil War Soldier, and USCI Officer,” Lori Ann Lahlum, Minnesota State University,
Mankato
“John Paulson: The man behind the mystery,” Dave Battistel, St. Patrick High School, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
“Teaching Paul Johnson,” Lori Ann Lahlum and Dave Battistel, Minnesota State University, Mankato, and St. Patrick High School,
Thunder Bay
Comments: Audience
35. World War II
Mitchell Room (Convention Center)
Sponsored by SMH
Chair: Carole Butcher, North Dakota State University
“Racial Conceptions in Nazi Occupied Europe: African Americans as Prisoners of War,” Anna Anderson, University of Houston
“The Killing Side of Fortitude: Allied bombardment of the Opal Coast, May-June 1944,” Stephen A. Bourque, Emeritus, US Army
Command & General Staff College
“’Miracles of Improvisation:’ U.S.S. CANOPUS and Defense of Mania Bay, 1941-1942,” Jeff Schultz, Luzern County
Community College
Commenter: Johannes Allert, Norwich University
36. Post War Germany & State Building
University B
Chair: Perry Hornbacher, Bismarck State College
“Already Forgotten? Teaching about Expulsion in German Schools, 1948-1960,” Kimberly A. Redding, Carroll University
“An Historical and Personal Odyssey in Germany, 1962-2013,” Charles M. Barber, Emeritus, Northeastern Illinois University
“Would You Like Fries With That? Considering the Modern Logic of State-building in a Post- modern World,” Luis da Vinha,
Valley City State University
“The Unfinished Presidencies,” Niklas Ernst & Luis daVinha, Valley City State University
Comment: Audience
37. Doing History
Swisshelm Room (Convention Center)
Chair: Betsy Glade, St. Cloud State University
“Journalists are not Oral Historians: A Comparative Examination of Oral History and Journalism,” Andrew Larson, University of
North Dakota
“Integration, Assimilation & Diversity: Introducing a Research Project Exploring the Growth & Development of the Lesser
Known Ethnic Communities Rooted in South Dakota’s History,” Stephen R. Cusulos, Independent Scholar
Comments: Audience
Saturday, September 17, 12:00 p.m.
Society for Military History Field Trip to Camp Ripley
Index of Names
Allert, Johannes, 13, 35
Anderson, Anna, 35
Arndt, J. Chris, 32
Arnold, Brie Swenson, 32
Ashbrook, John, 19
Baggett, Ashley, 30
Balicki, Joel, 24
Barber, Charles M., 36
Battistel, Dave , 34
Bellinger, Vanya Eftimova, 21
Bentley, Carrie, 30
Berg, Dylan, 28
Bloomberg, Kristin Mapel, 5, 7
Bourboun, Jacob Douglas, 17
Bourque, Stephen A., 35
Branson, William, 23
Brodnax, Sr., David, 22
Bucklin, Steven J., 27
Busby, Henry, 32
Butcher, Carole, 2, 18, 35
Carpenter, Fred, 11
Chamberlain, Oscar, 32
Chisholm, Brad, 30
Clink, Kellian, 25
Cooley, Daniel D., 22
Cox, John, 28
Cummings, Jim, 26
Cusulos, Stephen R., 37
Dalstrom, Harl , 10
da Vinha, Luis, 36
Davis, Glenn M., 23
Donaldson, Sean, 32
Dorn, Judy, 33
Ducksworth-Lawton, Selika, 6, 29
Dutton, Anthony, 15
Eaton, George, 8, 13
Eden, Jason, 14
Ehrman-Solberg, Kevin, 31
Epstein, Jonathan, 8
Ergen, Paul, 28
Ernst, Niklas, 36
Fitzharris, Joseph, 34
Folk, Drew, 15
Franklin, John, 28
Friedman, Hal, 8
Fricker, Alan, 18
Galler Jr., Robert W., 9, 14
Gann, Dustin Malone, 12
Gaul, Anita Talsma, 6
Gilbertson, Laurann, 12
Glade, Betsy, 11 25,, 37
Grettler, Dave, 3
Haala, Cory, 31
Hammond, Sarah, 30
Hampton, Nathan Eric, 15
Haque, Jameel, 29
Hedeen, Jonathan J., 15
Hogle, J. Thomas, 27
Howe, Craig, 1
Hubler-Dayton, Jackson David, 11
Hunt, Mari A., 13
Jaede, Mark, 22
Jarvis, Brad, 4
Kasparek, Jonathan, 27
Kendall, Seth Lyons, 33
Knutson-Kolodzne, Jim, 9
Koenig, Alan R., 29
Koran, Luke, 18
Laegreid, Renée M., 7
Lahlum, Lori Ann, 5, 34
Lansing, Michael, 31
Larson, Andrew, 37
Larson, Samantha L., 26
Lass, William, 3
Lauck, Jon, 31
LaVigne, David J., 4
Lehman, Christopher, 22
Lehmann, Clayton, 16
Lewis, Charles, 32
Lindell, Terrence, 29
Ludwig, Peter, 16
Lybeck, Rick J., 3
Madden, Chris, 2, 8
Martin, Michael, 11, 16, 23
Migliaccio, Carlton Josiah, 26
Miller, John E., 31
Monson, Paul G., 14
Morgan, William, Thursday Campus Tour
Mulligan, David, 2, 18
Mulligan, Debra, 13
Mullins, Jeffrey A., 27
Mutua, Eddah M., 25
Nelson, Paul, 18
Ness, John P., 21
Nichols, David J., 5, 7
Northrup, Matthew, 9
O’Brien, Maureen M., 33
Odinga-Oluoch, Agnes, 25
Patrick, Sue, 12
Peterson, Anna M., 5
Pierce, Pamela, 10
Pluth, Edward J., 6
Porter, Kimberly K., 4, 10
Redding, Kimberly A., 24, 36
Reist, Kay, 2
Ring, Andrew, 11
Rothaus, Richard, 26
Ryan, Michael A., 23, Keynote
Sachariason, Thomas, 28
St. Clair, Iyekiyapiwiƞ Darlene, 1, 9
Schmitt, Mackenzie, 24
Schroeder, Steve, 15
Schultz, Jeff, 35
Serrano, John, 24
Sharpe, Kevin, 14
Shiell, Timothy C., 6
Shumate, Dean, 2
Slaughter, III, James Floyd, 8
Stanley, Adam , 17
Steinson, Elizabeth, 26
Steman, Tom, Thursday Campus Tour
Stern, Gaius, 33
Stofferahn, Steven A., 14
Stone, Paul, 31
Sutton, Jennifer, 19
Taylor, William, 13, 29
Timmerman, Troy, 33
Utterback, Josh, 16
Valiani, Laura, 33
Van, Anne, 7
Walz, Matthew, 19
Webb, Daryl, 12
Wingerd, Mary Lethert, 5, 17
Wrightson, Graham Charles Liquorish, 16
Yang, Hekang, 21
Ystebo, Derek, 30
Proposals for individual papers or panels in all areas of history are welcome for the 52nd annual Northern Great Plains History
Conference. The conference will meet October 4-7, 2017, in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Proposals, consisting of abstract(s) and
one-page vitae, should be sent by April 15, 2010, to Dr. Kimberly K. Porter, Program Chair, Department of History, University of
North Dakota [kimberly.porter@und.edu]. Email questions to Kim Porter as well. Prizes will be awarded to the best graduate
student paper and undergraduate student paper presented at the conference.
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